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COP29 faces challenges in climate finance discussions with wealthy nations lacking clarity on financial commitments. Urgency to address climate change rema...

Poor nations may have to downgrade climate cash demands, ex-UN envoy says

Rich country budgets are stretched amid inflation, Covid and Ukraine war, Mary Robinson tells Cop29

The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2024

It was a time for niceties in the Commons. Kemi doesn’t do niceties

The G20? Cop29? Totally pointless, said the Tory leader. World leaders getting up themselves and a load of virtue-signalling

The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2024

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Fears Rise Of Gender Setbacks In Global Climate Battle

As global climate negotiators seek to eke out progress, participants say they are witnessing backsliding in one unexpected area -- gender.

International Business Times · Nov 21, 2024

Hopes of trillion dollar climate fund dim at Cop29 after developed countries fail to offer commitment

Campaigners fear the Baku summit may fail to establish a trillion dollar goal calling finance talk a ‘credibility test’ for UN talks

The Independent UK · Nov 21, 2024

John Prescott, a ‘critical force’ in climate policy, will be missed at Cop29

His tenacity in pushing crucial deals over the line in Kyoto and Copenhagen was born of belief in social justice

The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2024

UN chief tells countries to ‘soften hard lines’ amid deadlock in climate talks

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said ‘failure is not an option’ as countries remain deeply divided and the clock ticks down at Cop29.

Evening Standard · Nov 21, 2024

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Cop29 climate finance deal hits fresh setback as deadline looms

Outcry after draft text contains only an ‘X’ instead of setting $1tn funding goal to support developing countries

The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2024

Cop29: UN chair ‘so sick’ of Saudi Arabia’s defence of fossil fuels – as it happened

Former climate minister for Canada reacts after Saudi delegation said it ‘will not accept any text that targets any specific sectors, including fossil fuels’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2024

World Still Split Over Money As Clock Ticks On COP29

A fresh draft deal published Thursday at the deadlocked COP29 climate talks shows rich and poor countries still divided as time runs out to strike a finance agreement for developing nations.

International Business Times · Nov 21, 2024

Trump’s science-denying fanatics are bad enough. Yet even our climate ‘solutions’ are now the stuff of total delusion

The ‘progress’ made at Cop29 has been on carbon markets: a world of magical thinking, over-claiming and distorted truth, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2024

Nations race to land climate deal as Cop29 draft is rejected

A fresh draft of a climate pact unveiled Thursday at Cop29 failed to break an impasse between nations, with negotiators racing against the clock to broker a trillion-dollar finance agreement.

Radio France Internationale · Nov 21, 2024

Australia hoped hosting a Cop climate summit was a done deal. But one nation still stands in the way

Despite a diplomatic push from Chris Bowen and Anthony Albanese, Turkey won’t back down on its bid to host Cop31

The Guardian - AU · Nov 21, 2024

COP29: ‘climate finance’ for the Pacific is mostly loans, saddling small island nations with more debt

As this year’s UN climate summit reaches its final stage of negotiations, Pacific scholars are calling on world leaders to improve the dispersal system of climate finance to support people living in small island nations.

The Conversation · Nov 20, 2024

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The Conversation · Nov 20, 2024

Nature-based solutions are cheap and effective, and governments have the tools to make them a reality

As the world gathers in Azerbaijan for this year’s annual UN climate conference (COP29), the urgency to act on climate change has never been greater.

The Conversation · Nov 20, 2024

Friendly fire: a nuclear push by allies at COP29 poses a sticky problem for Albanese

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese didn’t see this coming. At the global COP29 climate talks in Baku, the Australian government was indirectly criticised by two allies, the United States and the United Kingdom, over its refusal to sign onto the goal of tripling nuclear power globally by 2050.

The Conversation · Nov 20, 2024

Cop29 so far: the good and bad news

Gradually, then suddenly is how Ernest Hemingway described going bankrupt. The climate crisis could be on a similar trajectory.

Radio France Internationale · Nov 20, 2024

France summons Azerbaijan ambassador over President Aliyev's 'unacceptable' remarks at Cop29

France has summoned Azerbaijan's ambassador to Paris over 'unacceptable remarks' made by the country's President Ilham Aliyev last week at the Cop29 climate talks he is hosting in Baku.

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The Guardian - UK · Nov 20, 2024

First Thing: US embassy in Kyiv closes over threat of ‘significant attack’

It comes as the Kremlin rules out a ‘freeze’ in the conflict. Plus, 204 industrial farming lobbyists attend Cop29

International Business Times · Nov 20, 2024

'Steep Climb' Ahead As Clock Ticks On Stalled Climate Talks

Pressure mounted on rich nations Wednesday to commit nearly $1 trillion a year in assistance for poorer countries as time runs out to strike a deal at the COP29 climate talks.

The Independent UK · Nov 20, 2024

Cop29: The trillion-dollar question that has left climate summit at an impasse

Talks over an agreement toi to inject climate finance into developing countries remain fraught as UN asks delegates to ‘cut the theatrics’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 20, 2024

Cop29: campaigners say talks are ‘reaching point of real emotion’ – as it happened

‘Talks aren’t just about figures on paper, they’re about people’s lives’, says Climate Action International as talks reach critical final days

The Conversation · Nov 19, 2024

COP29: Only by returning carbon to the ground is net zero truly possible

Negotiations at the 29th Conference of Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are entering their second week after things got off to a rocky start.

International Business Times · Nov 19, 2024

Europe's Pivotal Role In Bid To Strike COP29 Climate Deal

The European Union is key to a deal being done at UN climate talks in Baku by Friday -- viewed as a bridge both with China and poorer nations -- after climate sceptic Donald Trump's triumph in the US elections.

The Guardian - UK · Nov 19, 2024

China and India should not be called developing countries, several Cop29 delegates say

Delegates from poorer nations say classifications that date back to 1992 are obsolete and two countries ‘should be contributing’

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